2013 - Morba's Cake fed Strongman Log.

Monday push session

axle strict. Plan was to do these off the rack to save us trying to clean it. Wish we had followed that plan as my bicep was hurting and my back wasn't feeling too good. We cleaned from the floor though (ouchy)

warmups
40x10 front / 10 back
60x10
80x16
90x5
90x5
90x5
90x5
90x5
95x3
proper axle out
95x6 with a little push press

Incline log
70x10
90x10
100x10
110x5
120x3
130x2 - left bicep was starting to give up on me
110x6
110x6


thoughts:
We were going to do bench but there were too many of us last night (6 in the unit makes it busy) so did incline log and let the smaller boys do bench. Would have been too much messing around for us all to do bench.

Happy with 90kg 5x5 strict press.

For some reason my brain wouldn't let me full clean 100kg on the axle. I've done it before and 90/95kg went up fine. One of those brain niggles that just wouldn't let me do it lol.
 
Weds night squats and random crap

Be interesting to see how my knee holds out tonight!

warmups
40kgx10
40x10 paused
40x10

70x10
70x5
110x5
150x3
150x3
150x3
belt on
170x3
180x1 - paused at bottom
150x5
110x5

axle upright rows. Now, i'm not a fan of upright rows unless on an ez bar with a nice width grip.
40x10
50x10
60x5
60x5
60x5
70x3
60x5

DB BORs
45kg
10xleft
10xright
10xleft
10xright
15xleft
15xright


Thoughts:
Squats were nice, had my knee sleeves on from 150kg just to keep it stable.
170 and 180 felt heavy, but it was nice to actually feel like I was working my legs again!

upright rows - did these with a grip that was where it would be when doing an axle clean, to try and strengthen my pull from belly to shoulders. Not a bad idea actually, any help with a continental clean is a good thing!

Good session, quite happy.
 
Yeah, from a full clean perspective that would make sense, what we were trying to emulate was when you stop the clean on your belly then pull from there.
When I say grip, what i mean is the width that would be normal for when I do the pull from belly to shoulder.


Like that, but without the bounce
 
That looks like a prime candidate for massive hip drive...

It is, if you can hold it still while driving upwards so that it stays connected.
I can clean 120kg from there upwards, but its awkward, so was just breaking down the pull to add some more strength :)

I wish I had bigger hands, full cleaning the proper axle (95kg) is almost impossible for me yet using the scaffold "axle" I can clean over 100kg lol.
 
Deadlifts

Warmups
70x10
70x10
110x10
150x8
190x3
200x3
210x3
220x3
230x3
240x2
250x1 - 2013 PB
260xf

GHRs
5x6

Done.

Thoughts:
Wasn't sure how tonight would go, had horrible crap in my left lat earlier in day and my legs/hips were tired from squats last night.
Lots of triples and a cheeky PB that was ugly and slow.
260 broke the floor but id done too much by now. Never mind :)

A good week of training, a rarity these days!
 
Overhead day

No like my knees today, think it being significantly colder and my neoprene breaking has not helped.

Log press:
warmups
strict
70x10
70x10
80x5
90x5
95x3
push press
95x5
100x5
110x3
115x2
115x2
90x8

Log one motions:
90x1
95x1
100x1 - equal PB, so slow!
105x1 - PB, even slower than 100kg but didn't stop so counting it as a PB!

Seated axle press (clean from floor then sit on bench):
40xlots
60x10
80x10
90x5
95x5
100xf - couldnt clean it properly. ffs.
80x9

Standing axle press, strict
70x12

Done

Thoughts: my knees didnt like me and i was going cold quick between sets as there was 7 of us all doing the same thing last night. Was busier than normal and tbh I don't like it.
Happy to get 2 doubles at 115kg on log, my seated press felt weaker than before.

Feeling hungry today so going for a breakfast sub mmmmmm
 
Yeah, its nice to be training with people with a common goal tbh. It helps with motivation and drive for sure.
Definitely better than the years spent alone training, with no goal or clue about what I really wanted to be doing lol
 
**** deadlift session:

warmups
60kgxlots
110x10
160x10
200x5 - wow this was hard, felt very heavy
220x1 - dieing
230x1 - horrible horrible horrible
200x7

GHRs
5x5

Incline log press
70x10
90x10
110x8
120x5
130x1
140xf
120x5
120x7

Thoughts:
Back felt tired and weak tonight. My pulling was crap, rubbish and generally ****.
 
Didn't squat this week, still not recovered from the week before. Age is killing me :(

Saturday events session:
We decided to pay a visit to a local'ish gym that has started getting some strongman kit and to visit a few friends. So off to a gym in hartcliffe we go (anyone who knows Bristol will no doubt have heard of hartcliffe).

Log press:
Small home made log, couldnt get used to it.
Warm ups
Lots of strict as cleaning was hurting my knee.
65x10
80x5
100x3
105x1
115x1
120xf - log sits different to ours as its much thinner.

Car deadlift:
350kg tyre on frame x 10
+ people x 5
Rear of some Jeep thing x 5

Then the rain came which limited what we could do, so went inside and tried to do some DB press.
40x1
60x1
70xf

Max apollons axle:
60x5
80x1
100x1
110x1
115x1 - PB
120x1 - PB

Thoughts:

My knees started hurting on the log press which is a bad start :(
Only one other person was able to deadlift the jeep, that seemed really heavy even though it was side handle frame.
Max axle - the axle felt lovely and my knee was being nice all of a sudden. 120 was easier than 115! Ran out of time to try 125.

Overhead day tomorrow, hope I'm recovered lol. Will do strict stuff to save my knees a bit. Maybe some bands. Also maybe some bench!
 
Overhead strict night

warmups
axle strict press, clean first one press rest from chest

40xlots
60xlots
80x10
90x5
95x5
100x5
105x3
105x2
90x5
95x5 - someone video'd this one, i'll try and drag it from FB
95x5 - horrible clean

incline log press
70x10
90x10
110x3
120x3
130x2
140xf
130x3
dropset:
130x4, 110x5, 90x5, 70x6

Thoughts:
my knees were hating me all day today, my cleans were done from an almost horizontal back as getting my ass down further hurt. Great!
Having said that, I full cleaned everything and only the last set became messy.
Happy with my strict pressing, lots of volume at a high percentage of my 1RM.
incline log was hard as my tris were tiring, got some good volume in though. 140kg would have went if i hadnt done so much already I think.
The dropset BURNED, my tris were on fire afterwards. Everyone gave it a go and hated me for the suggestion of it afterwards :D
 
Training is sporadic at the moment. A house of illness and some lethargy from me doesn't help.

Deadlifts:
warmups
60x10
60x10
110x10
150x6
150x6
200x5
230x1
240x1
240x1
240x1

BORs:
70x10
110x8
110x8
110x8

GHRs
5x to failure (6 or 7 reps each set)

Thoughts:
Wasn't interested too much in training as was going to be alone for a session, not done that in a while.
200 went up easy, 230kg was simple, singles at 240kg were tasty. Felt good.

Some light BORs to get used to them again, need to be doing 140+ for good reps imo, start concentrating on upper back again a little.
 
Sunday events:
Missed out on training with everyone else as was busy so popped to the unit in the afternoon with my boy.
FREEZING cold and run out of gas.
Headed outside to do some farmers walk:

20kg x 20 metres (10m drop and turn)
60x20m
60x20m
80x20m
100x20m

By this point I was shivering and my hands felt like ****, so gave up.

Wanted to do some yoke but it was too damn cold tbh.

Headed back in side and did some axle floor to overhead:

60kg
3x10 fast.

this screwed me over and made me realise just how hard Grace could be! Need to do that, maybe tomorrow as im training alone again!
 
Awesome isn't it :D I need to bump the thread for any other people that want to give it a try lol.

To be fair my movement pattern yesterday was:
Bend at hip (no knee bend)
stiff leg clean to shoulders
strict press

terrible lol.

Might need to get out of work early tonight so that i can go and get some gas!
 
Offal-based dumplings. Both of you. :mad: :D

:p lol :D


Monday overhead session:

log:
warmups
70kgx10 (5 strict, 5 push)
70x8
90x5
90x5
100x3
110x3
110x2
110x2
110x2
110x1f1

Seated axle, clean from floor:
40x20 (feel the burn)
60x10
80x8
90x5
90x5
90x5
90x5

Done.

Thoughts:
Bloody freezing so didnt want to do much or be there too long. Cold was affecting my strength as the 110kg doubles felt hard.
No gas and training alone - hard work!
 
Yup was pretty cold yesterday, I'm sure it makes things harder than it should be!

It really makes a difference, it was my fault, got to the gym early enough to go get some gas but the fire kicked in nicely at first so thought I might be able to manage. It didn't last long though :(

must have beeen the cold....as thats an easy weight to press anyway:rolleyes:

:D


I know what you mean though..hehe

Hehe, its over 90% of my 1RM so it to be fair it's not gonna be that easy anyway but I think I could do 5x3 at it (which is odd when you work it out!) :D
 
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